Open Access‘n Prakties-teologiese model vir die verhouding Ou Testament/Nuwe Testament
Author(s) -
Willem Gabriel Thirion
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
verbum et ecclesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2074-7705
pISSN - 1609-9982
DOI - 10.4102/ve.v21i2.1263
Subject(s) - theology , new testament , philosophy , sermon , praxis , old testament , reading (process) , biblical theology , christian faith , lord's new church which is nova hierosolyma , hermeneutics , faith , epistemology , linguistics
A practical theological model for the relationship Old Testament/New Testament For all Christians the Bible consists of the Old and New Testament. The relationship, however, between these two parts is a hermeneutic-theological problem which confronts the communicative praxis of the Christian faith. Therefore it is necessary to develop a hermeneutic-theological theory for Christians which can serve as a paradigm within which the texts of the Old as well as that of the New Testament may regard as equal authoritative Word of God. As far as this study is concerned, there is but one approach only which can achieve this and that is a theocentric approach to both Testaments. A theocentric approach to the relationship Old Testament/New Testament, a) is capable of treating both Testaments as equal authoritative Word of God, b) prevents the practice of "two-sermons-in-one-sermon" in an attempt to make the message of the Old Testament more Christian like, c) is especially capable of communicating the message of the Old Testament in the communicative praxis of the Christian community and the modern society without reading by force Christ into the Old Testament.